Carbon nanotube scanning tunneling microscopy tips for chemically selective imaging

被引:49
作者
Nishino, T [1 ]
Ito, T [1 ]
Umezawa, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Sch Sci, Dept Chem, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
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10.1021/ac020215m
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O65 [分析化学];
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070302 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Carboxyl-terminated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were successfully immobilized from solution phases onto the apexes of gold tips for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Gold STM tips were first modified with self-assembled monolayers of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid, and its carboxyl groups were used to anchor carboxylated SWNTs through Zn2+ ion-bridged coordination. These SWNT tips gave high-resolution STM images of a diether monolayer formed on the graphite surface. In addition and more importantly, the ether oxygens of the sample molecules were selectively observed as bright spots with the SANT tips with significantly high reproducibility, which is due to the facilitation of electron tunneling through hydrogen bond interactions between the ether oxygens and carboxyl groups at the end of the SWNT tips.
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